If you cannot find your profile folder: In Windows 2000 and XP, the default profile locations listed below are inside the "Application Data" folder, which is hidden; in order to see it, you will need to enable viewing of hidden files and folders:

If you are having trouble finding your "Application Data" folder, you may wish to make use of the %APPDATA% environment variable, which points to the location of the folder for the logged-in user. For example:

The easiest way to back up your bookmarks (which are stored as a single file by Firefox) is to go to Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks --> File -> Export. Put 'bookmarks.html' wherever you want to back it up.

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Posted September 30th, 2007, 10:57 am

Tad Ghostal wrote:The easiest way to back up your bookmarks (which are stored as a single file by Firefox) is to go to Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks --> File -> Export. Put 'bookmarks.html' wherever you want to back it up.

When I try to follow this procedure I get an error message that I'm not allowed to open this file, that I have to get permission from the administrator.

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Posted September 30th, 2007, 12:23 pm

Source, I believe, I can't get very far. I'm trying to save them to a cd, so I can load them onto my new pc. I have quite a few bookmarks.

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Posted November 6th, 2007, 3:07 am

Guest wrote:

Tad Ghostal wrote:
The easiest way to back up your bookmarks (which are stored as a single file by Firefox) is to go to Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks --> File -> Export. Put 'bookmarks.html' wherever you want to back it up.

When I try to follow this procedure I get an error message that I'm not allowed to open this file, that I have to get permission from the administrator.

Ensure you are logged in as root when performing this action!

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Posted February 7th, 2008, 9:39 pm

Worked fine for me, thanks.

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Posted February 7th, 2008, 10:01 pm

Anonymous wrote:, so I can load them onto my new pc. I have quite a few bookmarks.